Recent Progress in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1996
DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-68525-8_17
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Psychiatric Problems of Living Kidney Transplantation in Child and Adolescent Recipients

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“…Psychiatric disorders are more common in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population (3) and have been shown to adversely impact survival in hemodialysis patients (4). However, psychosis occurring after renal transplantation has been infrequently described (5)(6)(7)(8)(9). There are several potential reasons why renal transplantation may predispose patients to an increased risk of psychosis: use of high-dose corticosteroids, a known risk factor for psychosis (8); chronic illness-associated affective disorders; metabolic factors associated with renal transplantation; and other immunosuppressive medications used in transplantation, such as calcineurin inhibitors, which have known neuropsychologic side effects (10).…”
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“…Psychiatric disorders are more common in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population (3) and have been shown to adversely impact survival in hemodialysis patients (4). However, psychosis occurring after renal transplantation has been infrequently described (5)(6)(7)(8)(9). There are several potential reasons why renal transplantation may predispose patients to an increased risk of psychosis: use of high-dose corticosteroids, a known risk factor for psychosis (8); chronic illness-associated affective disorders; metabolic factors associated with renal transplantation; and other immunosuppressive medications used in transplantation, such as calcineurin inhibitors, which have known neuropsychologic side effects (10).…”
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